figuring out why asp.net authentication ticket is expiring

Question

I need help figuring out why my authentication ticket is expiring after about an hour on my hosted website. But if I run the site locally the authentication ticket stays ali

Answer 1

I would try several things in troubleshooting this:

• IIS version & settings between your localhost & hosting. Most likely there are some differences in application pool setting
• In IIS 7, there is a special setting for this: read here